Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 72

Speak once again!" he gasped.

Who acts: you, father · What happens: speak, gasp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Speak	advmod
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Speak	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gasped	nsubj
7	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Speak	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here				again	once property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gasp in a quote	past	father						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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